To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many homes have been repossessed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) England in each year since 1997. (210972)

The Department does not collect information on mortgage possessions although information for the United Kingdom as a whole, rather than regions or local authority areas, is published by the Council of Mortgage lenders. These data are available on its website at:

http://www.cml.org.uk/cml/filegrab/3AP4.xls?ref=2753